The RaQ 4 comes pre-configured with support for the world’s leading development environments, giving customers everything they need to develop and deploy their Web applications. Unlike other Web application servers that tightly link the development environment to the server, the RaQ 4 lets you choose from a wide variety of development tools such as Microsoft FrontPage 2000 and Visual InterDev, Macromedia Drumbeat or NetObjects Fusion.

Configured with the Linux OS, Apache web server, InterBase 6 SQL Database and RAID 1 disk mirroring (RaQ 4r only), the Cobalt RaQ 4 is the ideal platform for deploying business critical applications that have high requirements for reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional Unix, Windows NT, or “build-it-yourself” alternatives.

Out of the box, the form factor of the RaQ 4 is identical to the RaQ 3 – meaning all of the space advantages gained by the RaQ 3 are still present. Although they still look the same, taking a look under the hood will show you that there are a number of differences. The RaQ 4 is advancing Cobalt’s server appliance technology by integrating powerful tools and applications into a reliable, low-cost solution. It all starts by rolling in powerful development functionality like Active Server Pages and PHP, which means that the RaQ supports virtually every Web development environment out there – meaning that you get to choose the tools and technologies that best fits your skills. Second is the addition of a powerful database to enable more dynamic, business critical applications to be deployed on the RaQ 4. To follow that up, business critical applications need high reliability and Cobalt addresses that by including software RAID 1 as a standard feature (RaQ 4r only). All of these features, plus a few more enhancements, make the RaQ 4 the ideal platform for SPs and application developers to deploy their applications and services.